Person:Richard Hull (2)

Richard Hull, brother of Andrew, … d c. 1 Sep 1662 (New Haven Vital Records).

Richard Hull Died about beginning of Septemb: 1662.

George and Joseph (Hull) were sons of Thomas and Joane Peson Hull, of Somersetshire, England … The relationship of Richard Hull to them, if there is any, is not known. He was a native of Derbyshire, England, and although four years younger than Joseph Hull came to this country before Joseph did, but the exact date of his arrival is not known.

Richard Hull, December 3, 1599 - August 21, 1662, colonist, free planter and progenitor of a prominent New Haven branch of the Hull Clan in America, was a native of Derbyshire. England. The exact date of his arrival in New England has not been ascertained. He was made a freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony at Dorchester in 1634, and a few months later was at Roxbury. In 1636 he sold his dwelling house at Roxbury to one Philip Sherman and removed to Boston. In 1639 he was at New Haven and there ended his wanderings, becoming one of that settlement's recognized founders and permanent citizens.

Richard Hull was admitted a freeman of Massachusetts Bay on 1 April 1634, the tenth of thirteen admitted that day [MBCR 1:368]. The two names immediately preceding and the three following Richard Hull were all from Dorchester, which suggests a possible relation to George Hull or John Hull of Dorchester. Savage and others make him the same as a Richard Hull of New Haven in 1640 and later, but there is no particular reason to believe this.

Richard Hull {1639, New Haven}